Usually, when you don’t have anything meaningful to contribute to a conversation, you keep your mouth shut. That isn’t the case with the internet. On online forums, you can say whatever you want, and the majority of the time, people will gobble up whatever you say. The following 35+ stories are of the complete opposite, where people tried to correct others without knowing they were dead wrong.
Georgia, the Country State
Did you know that Georgia is the name of both a state in the United States and a tiny country in Europe? All you need to do to know this is open up a geography book or, you know, Google it. People have Google on their phones, right?
You’d think that with an infinite amount of knowledge on the internet that people would know how to fact-check their own claims. We wish this were a sike moment, yet here we are.